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enDo Anonymous Apps Enable Cyberbullying?http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/do-anonymous-apps-enable-cyberbullying-160145
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Do apps like Whisper, Secret and Ask.fm, which let their users mask their identity, give voice to cyberbullying and other bad behavior? Mike Dreiblatt, president of the activist group Stand Up to Bullying and co-author of How to Stop Bullying and Social Aggression, says that such apps tend to bring out the worst in young people, and has some advice for the apps as well as parents.</p>
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<em>Mike Dreiblatt is president of the activist group <a href="http://standuptobullying.net" target="_blank">Stand Up to Bullying </a>and co-author of How to Stop Bullying and Social Aggression.</em><br />
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<strong>How pervasive is cyberbullying?</strong><br />
Twenty-five percent of students surveyed by the Cyberbullying Research Center said that they were cyberbullied at some point in their life; 87 percent of young people have reported seeing cyberbullying in their lifetime.<br />
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<strong>What&#39;s your opinion of anonymous apps? Do they facilitate bullying?</strong><br />
My work with students indicates that anonymous apps tend to bring out the worst in people. For some students, their middle school and high school years are a time of very strong emotions. Some students use anonymous apps to strike at someone virtually that they can&rsquo;t strike at in real life. Sometimes, teenagers lash out anonymously because they think the other person started it. Some cyberbullying is inadvertent. They think they&rsquo;ve made a joke. They think it&rsquo;s funny, and friends egg them on. Later they can&rsquo;t believe what they said.<br />
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<strong>What precautions should parents take to safeguard kids online?</strong><br />
Before your child even has a cellphone, talk to them&mdash;when they&rsquo;re 3-, 4-, 5-years-old&mdash;about what we do online. Like you&rsquo;d prepare them for crossing the street, prepare them for the digital highway. Discuss Internet and cellphone etiquette. Post rules next to the computer, which should be in a common area, such as the living room. Talk to your child about cyberbullying and its various incarnations. Teach children never to meet an online friend offline unless you are with them. Teach them what information they can share with others online and what they can&rsquo;t, such as telephone numbers, addresses, their full name and school. Remind children that they should not send any information that they don&rsquo;t want the general public to see. Use parental control software on all electronic devices.<br />
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<strong>What should you do if your kids are bullied?</strong><br />
Tell them not every cyberbully needs a response. If they receive a message or picture [that&rsquo;s inappropriate], try to ignore it. Sometimes, bullies are just trying to get a rise. If it persists, try to get documentation. Try to get screenshots, especially if it&rsquo;s something like Snapchat [where communications quickly vanish]. If it gets to the point where it&rsquo;s really hurtful or sexual, or goes on a long time, parents should tell kids that they need to put their devices down. Just don&rsquo;t look. Don&rsquo;t check. Getting school personnel involved may be useful if the cyberbullying happens at school or is having an impact on the student&rsquo;s ability to learn.<br />
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<strong>What if your kid is the bully?</strong><br />
Kids try on different personalities. A child might try out cyberbullying behavior. You need to tell them, &ldquo;That&rsquo;s not how we act in this family, and we mean it.&rdquo; You almost have to have a family intervention. Tell them, &ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to monitor you,&rdquo; and add software so you can do it. It&rsquo;s important that this is not just yelling at a child, but talking to them and following up.<br />
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<strong>Secret just instituted new measures to combat bullying. What should app makers do to ensure kids&#39; safety?</strong><br />
At times it feels like it is taking too long, but anonymous apps are getting better at following common sense policies and procedures that limit bullying and ensure kids&rsquo; safety. That said, anonymous apps still have a long way to go.<br />
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<strong>Could controversies over bullying scare off investors and advertisers?</strong><br />
Unfortunately, unless there is a long and sustained public outcry, I think investors and advertisers will participate in anonymous apps if they think it is financially advantageous.</p>
Technologyanonymous appsAppsAsk.fmCellphoneschildrenchildren's safetycyberbullyingFacebookKidsMagazine ContentMobileOnlineonlineSecretSocialThe Social IssueTwitterWhisperTue, 16 Sep 2014 02:12:31 +0000160145 at http://www.adweek.com6 Ads That Tell the True Story of the Cellphone [Video]http://www.adweek.com/video/cellphones/true-story-cell-phone-ad-video-156074
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In a single generation, the humble cellphone has gone from luggage-size utility and status symbol to universal second brain substitute and NSA tracking device. Here&#39;s how advertising sold us the dream in this week&#39;s Adweek Six.&nbsp;</p>
CellphonesThe Adweek 6Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:08:41 +0000156074 at http://www.adweek.comMore Than Half of America Has a Smartphonehttp://www.adweek.com/news/technology/more-half-america-has-smartphone-151002
Lucia Moses<p>
It&#39;s official: Smartphones are no longer a niche product. For the first time since the <a href="http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Smartphone-Ownership-2013/Findings.aspx" target="_blank">Pew Research Center</a> starting tracking smartphone ownership, more than half of American adults now own one. Fully 91 percent of adults own a cellphone of some kind, and 55 percent of those say their phone is a smartphone. The more affluent and younger you are, the more likely you are to have a smartphone, but most young people consider smartphones a must-have; they&#39;re more likely to have one, regardless of income.</p>
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<em>Illustration: &nbsp;Carlos Monteiro</em></p>
TechnologyHispanicAndroidAppleAppsBlackberryCellphonesDataData PointsIphoneluxuryMagazine ContentMobileSmartphoneWed, 10 Jul 2013 11:05:05 +0000151002 at http://www.adweek.comCartoon Network's Regular Show’s Surprising Creative Processhttp://www.adweek.com/news/television/cartoon-networks-regular-show-s-surprising-creative-process-148550
Lucia Moses<img src="http://www.adweek.com/files/imagecache/node-detail/news_article/first-mover-jg-quintel-hed-2013.jpg"> <p>
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<strong>Who&nbsp;</strong>J.G. Quintel<br />
<strong>Age </strong>30<br />
<strong>Gig</strong> Creator of <a href="http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/regularshow/index.html" target="_blank">Regular Show</a><br />
<strong>News</strong> Winner of a 2012 Primetime Emmy Award; renewed for fifth season<br />
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<strong>Regular Show is known for its off-the-wall scenarios and characters; there&rsquo;s a human gumball machine, another called High-Five Ghost. Where do they come from? </strong><br />
I was going to California Institute for the Arts. It came through this exercise the students come up with. The idea was to throw a word into a hat. We&rsquo;d draw a word out of the hat and we&rsquo;d come up with an idea for it. My first word was lollipop. So I came up with Pops and a whole story about it where he went to a restaurant and paid the bill with lollipops. The next year we did it again and the word was candy. I ended up drawing a gumball machine, and that was Benson. When Cartoon Network asked me to pitch something, I put it all together.<br />
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<strong>Mordecai, one of the main characters, is also based on you in college. What&rsquo;s a real-life experience that you worked into the show?</strong><br />
There are so many. &hellip; In San Diego, where I go every year to <a href="/node/144481">Comic-Con</a>, there was a restaurant where if you can eat a 12-egg omelet and biscuits and fruit bowl and all this stuff, you&rsquo;d get it for free. I tried and failed miserably. The waitress even told me, don&rsquo;t do this. That became an episode, and we won an Emmy for it. And jobs. I worked at a theater. I had two managers about my age and they would mess with me. I remember one night getting a phone call, and it was creepy. It was someone saying they were in the mall watching me. It ended up being them messing with me.<br />
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<strong>That became the &ldquo;Prank Callers&rdquo; episode. What&rsquo;s the creative process like?</strong><br />
We basically sit in a writing room. We throw fake titles into the hat, then we draw one out, and everybody has two minutes to write an episode based on that title. Then we&rsquo;ll read it all out. We&rsquo;ve done 160 episodes. We&rsquo;ve thrown away probably over a thousand. When everyone laughs out loud, you know you&rsquo;ve got something.<br />
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<strong>The &rsquo;80s music and technology is a hallmark of the show. Is that to appeal to adults who grew up with those things? </strong><br />
Ultimately, it was for my own personal enjoyment of the &rsquo;80s vibe. There were so many things that made a big impression on me. Those giant brick cell phones, the video games that looked so much better on the package than they did inside&mdash;you look back on those things and they look horrible. So it&rsquo;s just kind of fun to throw those things in.<br />
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<strong>Do you think the kids watching get the references?</strong><br />
I think they get it on some level. What I like even more is that their parents get it and they can talk to them about it. We really do want it to be for everybody.<br />
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<strong>How do you walk the line between making the show cool without running afoul of the censors? </strong><br />
We don&rsquo;t want to make a show where adults feel they can&rsquo;t make their kids watch it. But we don&rsquo;t want to cater to just kids. When we do come across things that make us really laugh, it&rsquo;s just a matter of making sure it&rsquo;s not over the line. There&rsquo;s a lot of things that are subtextual&mdash;movies, music. &hellip; As far as cheeky kind of stuff, we&rsquo;ll play with language. Like, Benson has a line where he&rsquo;s getting ready to play a game like Skee-Ball. He&rsquo;s explaining it and says, &ldquo;When the balls drop &hellip; ,&rdquo; and Mordecai and Rigby giggle. It&rsquo;s these subtle things.<br />
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<strong>You&rsquo;ve had actors like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Asner" target="_blank">Ed Asner</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/HamillHimself" target="_blank">Mark Hamill</a> voice characters. Is there anyone you&rsquo;d love to have? </strong><br />
I would really love to get Jack Black. He&rsquo;s got a great range. If he was ever willing to do it, we would definitely come up with something that would utilize his powers.<br />
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<strong>What&rsquo;s the weirdest homage a fan&rsquo;s made to the show? </strong><br />
Early on in the show, I saw someone had a tattoo of the baby ducks. And Benson. The fact someone would like the show so much they would want to put a permanent tattoo on their body&mdash;that&rsquo;s amazing.</p>
Television80'sCableCartoon NetworkCartoonsCellphonesComic-conEmmy Awardfirst moverJ.G. QuintelJack BlackMagazine ContentThe Kids IssueThe Regular ShowThu, 18 Apr 2013 04:03:47 +0000148550 at http://www.adweek.comOne in Four Teens Uses a Cellphone to Get Onlinehttp://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/one-four-teens-use-cellphones-get-online-148577
Lucia Moses<p>
Teens have been the most voracious online users for years. What&rsquo;s changed in the past year is that they&rsquo;re increasingly accessing the Internet on the go (thank Apple for that). A Pew Research Center study, <a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Teens-and-Tech.aspx" target="_blank">Teens and Technology 2013</a>, found that while cellphone ownership has held steady, 37 percent of kids 12-17 owned a smartphone in 2012, up from 23 percent the year before. Moreover, one fourth of teens use the cell as their primary way of accessing the Internet, and among smartphone owners, that figure rises to 50 percent. (Only 15 percent of adults can say the same.) No wonder that, with smartphones allowing Internet access along with talking and texting, kids more than ever always seem to be on the phone.</p>
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<em>Infographic: Carlos Monteiro</em></p>
Advertising & BrandingTechnologyThe PressAppleAppsCellphonesComputersDatadataData PointsFacebookGamingGoogleInternetOnlineonline accessSmartphonesSocialTabletTabletTeensThe Kids IssueTwitterVideoWed, 17 Apr 2013 02:04:34 +0000148577 at http://www.adweek.com